ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,109, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for power management of readers" was invented by Gourango Lal Biswas (Charlotte, N.C.), Gulshan Kumar (Charlotte, N.C.), Manish Sharma (Charlotte, N.C.), Pankaj Kumar Pandey (Charlotte, N.C.) and Shyam Kumar Gornakonda (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a computing device comprising a wake-up detect circuit configured to detect a state change of a link light emitting diode (LED) associated with the computing device. The wake-up detect circuit is configured to transmit a wa...